Deerspring
About Me
I am a first-year Biostatistics PhD student at the
JHU-BSPH. I am passionate about data science and
statistical methodology. My primary technical interests
are in autoencoders and causal inference, while my
domain-specific research interests lie broadly in the
fields of environmental health, climate policy, and
protein design. I did my undergraduate (BSc) in
Biochemistry at the University of Arizona, and spent
3-years as a research assistant focused on computational
protein design and on synthetic biology. I have a little
bit of experience in statistics/programming/data analysis,
but no formal academic training. What I hope most to get
out of this course is a more fundamental grasp of the
RLang and the data science ecosystem built around it.
Five Fun Facts About Me (indexed at 0)
- I love burritos, sandwiches, and tacos
- I am Navajo from Northern Arizona, and am born for the Deerspring
- I am a huge fan of Rust and its culture of memory-safe programming
- Everything Everywhere All At Once is my favorite movie.
- I recently received the honor of being named part of the Intel Scholars Program!
- I am a member of the Vivien Thomas Scholars
Initiative (VTSI) at Johns Hopkins University.
Inspiring Link
While I am not a computer scientist nor doing a CS PhD, this is the video that originally inspirated me to pursue a PhD in Biostatistics: The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math
I love his discussion of industry at the end of the
video, and how the problems he faced as an industry
scientist were extremely interesting and leveraged his
academic background.
Contact
You can reach me at milunga2 [at] jh.edu
About Me
I am a first-year Biostatistics PhD student at the
JHU-BSPH. I am passionate about data science and
statistical methodology. My primary technical interests
are in autoencoders and causal inference, while my
domain-specific research interests lie broadly in the
fields of environmental health, climate policy, and
protein design. I did my undergraduate (BSc) in
Biochemistry at the University of Arizona, and spent
3-years as a research assistant focused on computational
protein design and on synthetic biology. I have a little
bit of experience in statistics/programming/data analysis,
but no formal academic training. What I hope most to get
out of this course is a more fundamental grasp of the
RLang and the data science ecosystem built around it.
Five Fun Facts About Me (indexed at 0)
- I love burritos, sandwiches, and tacos
- I am Navajo from Northern Arizona, and am born for the Deerspring
- I am a huge fan of Rust and its culture of memory-safe programming
- Everything Everywhere All At Once is my favorite movie.
- I recently received the honor of being named part of the Intel Scholars Program!
- I am a member of the Vivien Thomas Scholars
Initiative (VTSI) at Johns Hopkins University.
Inspiring Link
While I am not a computer scientist nor doing a CS PhD, this is the video that originally inspirated me to pursue a PhD in Biostatistics: The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math
I love his discussion of industry at the end of the
video, and how the problems he faced as an industry
scientist were extremely interesting and leveraged his
academic background.
Contact
You can reach me at milunga2 [at] jh.edu